ConfusedPossum

Lovely. I used to have a Ukrainian coworker and she overheard me use the word ‘zoeken’ (search) and she thought I was swearing as I didn’t pronounce the ‘n’ strongly

Actually no, but I’ll try as soon as I have the opportunity. Thanks for the advice!

It’s completely unwatchable with voice dubs isn’t it? I don’t get how anyone puts up with it

I’ve had family tell me The Emperor’s New Groove is actually great with Dutch dubs but the title in Dutch just translates to “Emperor Cuzco”. No one is gonna convince me most jokes don’t get lost in translation when the first time it happens is in the title!

Well, I guess that means that as far as Valve knows I’ll still be happily slaughtering zombies in L4D2 at the ripe old age of 130

I wonder if the servers will still be up

The Slavic languages are interesting but I don’t know a lot about them. It must be amusing to be aware of the various levels of mutual intelligibility. Do you know any jokes Eastern Europeans make about this among themselves?

No amount of exceptions and quirks will prevent you from learning any language as long as you have lots and lots of exposure. After your reach a certain base level you just keep improving as you use the language, and even the exceptions start to feel natural.

English is the only language other than my mother tongue I have achieved this level with. I’d like to think at least in writing it’s indistinguishable from a native speaker. Theoretically tho German should be easier for me as I’m Dutch. But my German never reached the same level because of the difference in exposure

What are the consequences of this

Like does this mean they could develop an app where you just have a library with all those nostalgic legacy games

If anything Hamas is the product of the systematic marginalization and humiliation of the Palestinians

Kurzgesagt did this video where they crammed all of Earth’s history in an hour. Basically you look at a barren wasteland for most of the time until life finally goes macroscopic and then all of humanity happens in less than a second

I sat through the whole thing and it’s still incomprehensible

I think only prions can spread through meat

Edit: I’m obviously wrong, salmonella exists. Also a quick Google search says viruses can also be transferred through meat

A slice of pear might work. Or even apple but you’d have to fry it first

Use a fork

Well I mean he’s interesting as a case study, his decisions have real world implications and it seems like he’s on a path to a meltdown that many people would love to witness in real time

And are a menace to society

They look like they fight a lot, are addicted to something and have had a broken car in their front yard for the past 3 years

She is such an idiot, I’d feel bad for her if she wasn’t also a completely insufferable person

This election is going to be wild

It seems one needs to raise twins with a healthy dose of individuality or risk them becoming emotionally stunted in their development and being overly dependent on one another. Weirdly, this is the second time I’ve seen a video of Australian twins who are way too in to it

Similar stories about whooping cough and measles made the news in the Netherlands as well. Although in addition to blaming Covid here it was also pointed out that some people fail to see the importance of traditional vaccines because they’ve been so successful, nobody knows anymore how dangerous and debilitating such diseases can be

And a full retreat from the West Bank as well